Zahoor Sakafi

Dear All, I personally agree and thankful for the presentation. Thanks a lot.

David Evans I could see removing feed from the birds during the day to minimize heat stress (which of course would reduce growth) and keeping good air movement over them its just that you don't want them to sleep for a long period of time. I am an advocate for not giving the birds long dark periods at night during times of heat stress because it can cause the body temperature to be higher at nigh ...

Can glucose be used with sodium bicarbonate in heat stress and what should be its dose?Is glucose beneficial in heat stress?

In order to better understand acid-base disequilibrium in the body it is important to remember that "pH" refers to the existing relationship between acid and basic concentrations in a solution. So pH = [bases]/ [acids], which could be also somehow expressed as Ph = [HCO3] / [CO2]. When heat stress involves panting it means that there is hyperventilation, which decreases CO2 (carbon dioxide) conce ...

Thanks so much everybody for sharing the causes of heat stress and relevant remedies.Regards.

Information is crucial, temperature causing heat stress is probably the most important aspect that increase the mortality rate here in the Caribbean region.

Many thanks great friends for all your contributions and suggestions. If I may add also about the addition of organic chromium into the feed at 500 grams per ton of finished feed . The feeds could be pelletized during hot weather to ensure that the birds gets the complete nutrients from each peck . They would need to peck less thereby exerting less energy during feeding.